re: #104 Justanotherhuman

My back door is a balcony. : ) Front door, strangely enough, is on the ground level. There are apts like this in hilly places around here. The one underneath me I call the “bat cave” and there is only one entrance. One of its BRs has no windows whatsoever because the backside of the apt is built into the earth. They say they save on elec.

Near where my Dad used to live in Southern Ill, there was a “Earth Sheltered” house. The Front was all that was visible, rest was all under earth berms. I did notice that it had a number of skylight structures sticking up through the earth over the top.

I’d imagine it’s very effective in terms of energy efficency, but I’d think it would be a strange not having windows in most of the rooms.

RBS